Monument record MDO43053 - Possible Iron Age field boundaries, Bazon Hill, Up Cerne

Banked curvilinear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Bazon Hill, Up Cerne. The features are closely adjacent to two Iron Age field systems to the south and northeast (MDO2818; 2812) and it is possible that they are outliers to these and of prehistoric origin. Alternatively, however, they may be field boundaries and/or lynchets of possible medieval to post medieval date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Banked curvilinear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Bazon Hill, Up Cerne (1-3). The features comprise sections of narrow curvilinear banks on a SW-NE axis. This is broadly on the same alignment as the adjacent historic field pattern, which suggests a possible medieval origin.
The features are also closely adjacent to two Iron Age field systems to the south and northeast (MDO2818; 2812) and it is possible that they are outliers to these and of prehistoric origin. Alternatively, however, they may be field boundaries and/or lynchets of possible medieval date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Some of the features are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on 2002 Google Earth imagery (3).

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1050-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17031.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4376-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17032.

<3> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3360-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17033.

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Feb 11 2021 10:49AM